Lister plow and planter.



No. 757,999. PATBNTED APR. 19, 1904.

c. R. DAVIS.- LISTER PLOW AND PLANTER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 20. 1904.

N0 MODEL.

WITNESSES UNITED STATES Patented April 19 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

CALVIN R. DAVIS, OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO OLIVER CHILLED PLOWWORKS, OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA.

LISTER PLOW AND PLANTEFI.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 757,999, dated April19, 1904.

Original application filed April 9, 1903, Serial No. 151,831.N0.189,863.

lister plows and planters, and more particu' larly to improvedcovering-wheels and mounting therefor, this application being a divisionof application for patent filed by me April 9, 1903, and designated bySerial No. 151,831.

The object of the present invention is to provide improved means foradjusting the angle of inclination of the covering-wheels; and itconsists in certain novel features of construction and combinations andarrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described, andpointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in end elevation,illustrating my improvements; and Fig. 2 is a View of the axlebearingbracket removed.

1 represents the frame of a sulky-lister converging at its rear end,where a tubular bracket 2 is securely bolted and supported on a standard3. To the lower end of said standard an adjustable wheel-aXle-bearingbracket 4 is secured by a bolt 5, passed through a sleeve 6 on thebracket and through standard 3 therein. The bracket 4 is provided withnotched or toothed elongated openings or slots 6 to receive bolts 7,passed through ears 8 on the lower side of sand-bands 9, in whichaxle-stubs 10 are secured, and on said stubs the covering-wheels 11 aremounted. Ears 12 are provided on the upper side of sand-bands 9 andperforated for the reception of bolts 13, passed through holes 14 inbracket l and pivotally support the axle-stubs, permitting their angleof inclination to be varied by adjusting bolts 7 in the notched ortoothed openings or Divided and this application filed January 20, 1904.Serial (No model.)

I Having fully described my invention, what I I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, isv 1. In a sulky-lister, the combinationwitha bracket secured tothe frame thereof, of sandbands having cars atboth sides, bolts pivotally securing the upper ears, bolts passingthrough the lower ears and through elongated slots in the bracket, saidelongated slots having notched walls, to clamp the sand-bands at anyangle, stubs secured in said sand-bands, and covering-wheels on saidstubs.

2. In a sulky-lister, the combination with a standard, and a framesupported at its rear end by said standard, of a bracket secured to thelower end of said standard and having openings therein and elongatedslots curved concentrically with said openings and having notched walls,sandbands,stubs in said sandbands, covering-wheels on the stubs,perforated ears on opposite sides of the sand-bands, bolts passedthrough one ear of each of said sand-bands and through the openings inthe bracket to pivotally support the stubs, and other bolts passedthrough the other ears on the sandbands and through the elongated slots:in the bracket to secure the stubs and covering-wheels at the desiredangle of inclination.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses. 1

CALVIN R. DAVIS.

Witnesses:

EDWIN NICAR, F. O. NIPPoLn.

